An overseas assignment sounds glamorous and romantic, but then you find it takes three days to convince the leasing company to hook up the clothes dryer, you can't communicate with the corner butcher and your kids hate their new school and long for their friends.
Wasley also highlights continuing casual homophobia in the UK, citing Stonewall research suggesting more than half of gay, lesbian and bisexual young people have been bullied at school and Home Office records of 4, 200 homophobic hate crimes in England and Wales last year.